edwards. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and, secretary lahood, thank you so much because every time that you've appeared before this committee not only are you forthright about everything, but your passion for high-speed rail is so evident. i want you to know that there are plenty of members on this committee who share that and not just for where we live, but for a network b that would eventually run across this country. and i know that that's part of the vision. and i think that you're right. you have to start with a vision. and then begin to build on that and punch through, as i said before, punch through the resistance. some on this committee and particularly on the other side of the aisle have talked an awful lot about a bottom-up approach and renewed focus on what states want and what states twine for their own -- define for their own needs versus the federal government. and yet in the discussion about high-speed rail it seems to be quite the reverse, quite frankly. and so when the applications came in from the states